EARTH UNDER FAST PRESSURE: MAN´S FAST FOOD SYSTEM

By Gundhramns Hammer
August 5, 2019

The "needs" of the few outweigh the real needs of the many.

Amazon destruction for fast food beef. Source: Climate Today.

Oozy, splashing, wheezing and gurgling sounds came from behind the wall. Fast! Faster! Faster!! Faster!!!! Faster!!!!!! Oh, my gosh, oh, my gosh ...John!!! ... John!!!! Faster!!! screamed a woman that was being nailed to the hilt upstairs. 

Or was it a "man" with a feminine voice? Who knows in this world turned upside down!

The heavy breathing became faster and faster until there was an explosion of fast moanings, grunts and howls as the couple, intertwined together like a rose bush, finished fast their secret whoopee encounter. 

They had to do it faster since the philanderer that had plugged-in fast in the milking machine was expecting his wife home any time soon from the fast lane.

It was the quickest quickie. It was the fastest pseudoreproductive encounter, performed under the spell of faster is better like everything else is done in a world wrapped in a fast and faster craziness that has grabbed man by his guts.

Fast sex, fast coffee, fast foods, fast marriages, fast divorces, etc., etc. Everything is fast.

The cities are inundated with fast. Technology changes fast. People become mad fast. Movies have become sequences of fast shots to give the impression of fast action to please crowds of Homo insapiens that want everything fast. 

People travel fast. People eat fast food but cannot shit fast, which means they accumulate poop in their large intestine, i.e., walk constipated, and in the end they get cancer fast. 

Some people shit fast but stay longer in the bathroom, smelling their farts in order to escape the fast rat race of their crazy unhappy marriages or unhappy together fast lives. 

People complain their lives are running too fast. 

Everything is dressed with fast.

Humans get fast what they want fast. Fast, faster is what counts today otherwise people get really upset fast if they don´t get it fast when they want it fast in their fast pace life that really fucks them up fast.

But fast has a heavy price.

Above all, fast food is one of those fast things that is causing tremendous harm and damage not only to humans and domestic animals in factory farms but also to the basis of their health: The environment.

Earth is now under pressure by man´s fast food chain system. 

Tropical forests are cleared to make room for cattle destined for the fast food industry. In tropical and temperate regions, large tracts of land are cultivated for the crops to get the raw materials to manufacture the animal feed to raise animals as fast as possible for the fast food chain. 

In some parts of the world humans are consuming more than what they need and as a consequence they are suffering of poor health. 

Whereas in other regions, people are left with nothing to eat because the "needs" of the few outweigh the real needs of the many.

Humans are now living under the dominance of fast food giants. 

Schlosser (2002) points out that in 1970, U.S. consumers spent almost $6 billion in fast food; in 2001, they gobbled up $10 billion. According to this author, "Americans now spend more money on fast food than on higher education, personal computers, computer software, or new cars. From cradle to the grave, people eat fast food".

Here is the 2011 QSR 50 list of the top 50 fast food chains in the United States:

• McDonalds
• Subway
• Burger King
• Wendy´s
• Starbucks
• Taco Bell
• Dunkin´ Donuts
• Pizza Hut
• KFC
• Sonic
• Chick-fil-A
• Domino´s Pizza
• Panera Bread
• Arby´s
• Jack in the Box
• Dairy Queen
• Papa John´s
• Chipotle
• Hardee´s
• Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen
• Quiznos
• Panda Express
• Carl´s Jr.
• Little Caesars
• Whataburger
• Church´s Chicken
• Steak N Shake
• Zaxby´s
• Jimmy John´s
• Five Guys
• Bojangles´
• Long John Silver´s
• Culver´s
• Checkers, Rally´s
• Papa Murphy´s
• Del Taco
• Baskin-Robbins
• El Pollo Loco
• Cici´s Pizza
• White Castle
• Boston Market
• Jason´s Deli
• Sbarro
• Qdoba
• In-N-Out Burger
• Tim Hortons
• Captain D´s
• Einstein Bros.
• Cold Stone Creamery
• Krystal

The chart below (Table 1) gives you some economics information of the fast food chain system sales in the USA.

Table 1. The fast food chains sales in the United States. Source: QSR 50.

QSR 50 Rank	Company	Segment	2010 U.S. Systemwide Sales (millions)	2010 U.S. Average Sales per Unit (thousands)	Total Units in 2010	Total Change in Units from 2009
1	McDonald’s	burger	$32,395.0	$2,400.0	14,027	47
2	Subway*	sandwich	$10,600.0	$452.0	23,850	816
3	Burger King*2	burger	$8,600.0	$1,230.0	7,253	3
4	Wendy’s*	burger	$8,340.0	$1,418.0	6,576	35
5	Starbucks*	snack	$7,560.0	$1,060.0	11,131	0
6	Taco Bell	mexican	$6,900.0	$1,288.0	5,634	30
7	Dunkin' Donuts*	snack	$6,000.0	$839.0	6,772	206
8	Pizza Hut	pizza/pasta	$5,400.0	$855.0	7,542	-24
9	KFC	chicken	$4,700.0	$933.0	5,055	-107
10	Sonic	burger	$3,619.9	$1,023.0	3,572	28
11	Chick-fil-A	chicken	$3,582.5	$2,694.4	1,537	57
12	Domino’s Pizza*	pizza/pasta	$3,305.6	$657.0	4,929	2
13	Panera Bread	sandwich	$3,100.0	$2,200.0	1,453	73
14	Arby’s	sandwich	$3,010.0	$838.0	3,649	-69
15	Jack in the Box	burger	$2,934.8	$1,322.0	2,206	-6
16	Dairy Queen*	burger	$2,660.0	$540.0	4,514	-25
17	Papa John’s	pizza/pasta	$2,081.8	$863.0	2871	90
18	Chipotle	mexican	$1,840.0	$1,800.0	1,084	129
19	Hardee’s*	burger	$1,695.00	$1,054.0	1,692	-64
20	Popeyes*	chicken	$1,635.0	$1,053.0	1,580	34
21	Quiznos*	sandwich	$1,430.0	$420.0	3,103	-600
22	Panda Express	asian	$1,404.5	$1,093.5	1,336	62
23	Carl’s Jr.*	burger	$1,310.0	$1,375.0	1,097	11
24	Little Caesars*	pizza/pasta	$1,253.0	$460.0	2,800	152
25	Whataburger	burger	$1,225.7	$1,709.0	717	15
26	Church’s Chicken	chicken	$872.7	$695.0	1,250	24
27	Steak N Shake*	burger	$786.6	$1,590.0	487	2
28	Zaxby’s	chicken	$777.6	$1,548.0	514	22
29	Jimmy John’s*	sandwich	$735.0	$753.0	1,131	162
30	Five Guys Burgers & Fries	burger	$716.0	$1,139.0	736	195
31	Bojangles’	chicken	$712.8	$1,573.3	484	27
32	Long John Silver’s*	seafood	$700.0	$655.0	964	-25
33	Culver’s	burger	$689.1	$1,641.2	424	11
34	Checkers/Rally’s	burger	$658.7	$830.4	804	-16
35	Papa Murphy’s	pizza/pasta	$648.8	$538.5	1,255	84
36	Del Taco	mexican	$579.0	$1,100.0	522	6
37	Baskin Robbins*	snack	$565.0	$220.0	2,600	55
38	El Pollo Loco	chicken	$557.0	$1,400.0	412	-3
39	CiCi’s Pizza*	pizza/pasta	$545.0	$906.0	594	-31
40	White Castle*	burger	$542.1	$1,300.0	416	-2
41	Boston Market*	chicken	$513.0	$1,015.0	491	-29
42	Jason’s Deli	sandwich	$503.2	$2,226.6	226	11
43	Sbarro*	pizza/pasta	$501.5	$623.0	778	-7
44	Qdoba	mexican	$480.8	$883.0	525	15
45	In-N-Out Burger*	burger	$472.5	$1,925.0	252	13
46	Tim Hortons1	snack	$439.2	$978.0	602	39
47	Captain D’s	seafood	$436.2	$819.0	531	-4
48	Einstein Bros. Bagels*	sandwich	$400.4	$988.0	583	51
49	Cold Stone Creamery	snack	$385.7	$344.0	1,122	76
50	Krystal*	burger	$377.3	$1,036.0	364	-20

*Includes figures estimated by Technomic, Inc.

1. Systemwide sales from franchised units only

2. Total change in units calculated from data reported in 2010 QSR 50

As expected, fast people have their favourite fast foods (Fig. 1). And their favourite junk food has a social media value (Fig. 2).

Figure 1. Customers favourites grouped by markets. Source: QSR 50.

Figure 2. Social media value (in U.S. millions) for the top fast food chains. Source: QSR 50.

This is a lot of bread out of the junk food! No wonder Nature is being screwed up. Too many fast food loving human rats munching on the Biospheric cheese!!

After all, this junk food does not come out of a food synthesizer on the Enterprise star ship but out of Nature. So Nature is under fast pressure, the pressure of man´s fast food system.

And also keep in mind that this fast food system has ramifications. So when you eat a hamburger, you are really sucking up the blood of countless animals that were killed when the tract of forest was chopped down in the tropics to make space for the cows. 

At the same time, you also send to hell the poor people who scratch their living out of the forests. More than 1 billion people around the world depend on the forests to get their food, practicing food gathering and hunting.

And the overall outcome, people are getting sicker as a result of this sick system. 

Where does the fast food chain power come from?

The power of this fast food engine comes from the large herds of dumb people, the chemically bewitched consumers. 

Once this system is well fed, the energy accumulated at the top is applied downwards and outwards, channeled under the might of an oligarchy who wants to squeeze fast the economic juice out of the masses of dumb people that have been manipulated and turned into whimsical beasts which only crave and consume what is fast and behave as blind herds that are running fast on the fast lane towards extinction. 

In a world of finite resources, man should slow down his fast consumption otherwise Nature may soon have the last laugh on him.

If you are serious about finding out what man´s fast food pressure is doing to Earth, make sure you read Eric Schlosser´s book entitled "Fast Food Nation: What the all-american meal is doing to the world".

But don´t go too fast on this book, albeit dense reading, go slow to get the gist behind the fast food chain that has you chained up. 

Now it is up to you whether you should go fast or slow. But remember: Eat fast, fast food, faster, then you exist fast. 

References

Schlosser E. (2002). Fast Food Nation: What the All-American Meal is Doing to the World. Penguin Books Ltd., London, UK. 164 p.